Given that this kind of thing has happened many times before, and that it’s the dissemination of knowingly false information about an individual, spread with malicious intent, and causes demonstrable, real-world harm, I’m thinking it’s time to start treating acts like this for what they are — libel.

The thing is, it’s the ‘snowball effect’ that the execs (who aren’t idiots) are worried about. Any dip in profitability means that all those big investor dollars studios are constantly chasing start moving elsewhere for better ROIs. And that means their film budgets shrink, gross profits go down more, more investors…

Congress shall pass no law abridging the freedom of speech. The constitution is pretty clear that the US Government cannot get involved. The Constitution specifically forbids it. That means no courts, civil or criminal. They are both the part of US Government, and getting involved is abridging the freedom of speech.

For-profit healthcare — making money off your misery, and the more miserable you are, the better the margins are for the ‘investor’ class, who ‘coincidentally’ happen to be mostly wealthy white people...

When wealth and power is increasingly concentrated into the hands of fewer and fewer people, the only solution is to unionize and strike to take that wealth and power back. Because the people who have hoarded all that wealth and power have taken away any other options and have made it clear that they will not…

Enforcing such clauses would (or at least should) be a first-amendment violation, because only the government can enforce them, and doing so is the government interfering with free speech. That’s how racially discriminatory clauses in HOAs were outlawed back in the ~60s (iirc) — by making it impossible to enforce…

Don’t worry, Republicans will find another way to stop ‘other people’ from voting or having their votes counted. Because Republicans gonna Republican. It’s what they do.

There’s nothing to ‘clarify.’ He said what he meant. Exactly what he meant. And what he meant was ignorant propagandist drivel that serves nothing and no one but naked corporate greed. Because he’s an ignorant corporate-taint licker who couldn’t be bothered to educate himself about any of the issues in play.

Because it’s not about crime. It’s about power and oppression. It’s about continuing the age-old trend of fear mongering that makes otherwise-reasonable people make stupid decisions. It’s about creating and proliferating an environment of fear to make it easy to hold onto that power illegitimately, to make the people…

Ooo! Ooo! A mindless, spineless, taint-suckling, oozing sack of festering excrement!

That’s cool, but the true history of unions and why they’re so important should be repeated whenever possible. If for no other reason than as a counter all the anti-union disinformation flooding the public consciousness (it’s hard to compete with all the anti-union echo chambers created by billionaires, since, you…

They’ve already tried, and it didn’t work. Which is why they caved the last time. The truth is, the people on strike *ARE* the lifeblood of the industry. And they’re tired of useless, overpaid, arrogant execs trying to squeeze them so they can line investor pockets, all while the people doing the work can barely make…

Here’s hoping. SpaceX has done great things for the launch industry, but the last thing *ANYONE* needs is for the industry to get completely captured by megalomaniacal manchild, Musk.

Consider the only realistic outcome for this legislation and agency, if it goes through — both parties want this kind of agency for completely different reasons, and would go about achieving the desired results in incompatible ways. It’s not unlike how one political ideology wants law enforcement to aid in its…

So the world’s many governments are on the brink of catastrophe, their economies are spiraling into the shitter, and another world-wide war looms on the near horizon...but somehow all of these governments have also managed to secretly collude to cover up the biggest secret and discovery in human history and almost…

Yup. The ‘anti-censorship’ Musk is actually *PRO* censorship. But only when he’s the one holding the censorship gavel. So, like every other Republican — a drooling hypocrite, howling to the world about how ‘they’re being silenced’ while actively and aggressively silencing others.

Well, duh? Racists assholes hate it when you call them out for being racist assholes. And what is ‘country music’ if not a safe haven created by racist assholes so they don’t have to have their racist-asshole nature thrown back in their face all the time? ‘Country music’ and racist asshole are practically synonymous. I…

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

It’s the unspoken rule of wealth — ‘I got me and mine, so f*** you and yours’ + ‘Kick the ladder out from under you so no one can follow you up.’ It’s a tradition stretching back hundreds of years, more American than baseball and apple pie.

Because one is a carefully cultivated persona, managed by high-paid PR managers. The other is the real Tom Cruise.